I'm wondering if there are any files to help you build muscle mass and lose fat.
I got to to the gym and lift - I just want to convince my body that I should build more muscles and burn more fat.
Thoughts?
I have spent decades developing different hypnosis and self-hypnosis techniques. I have completed formal training in clinical hypnosis, and long before that I had already explored altered states from several directions, including Buddhist practice and initiation. So I am not presenting the following as a doctrine, but as a working model based on long experimentation.
In deep self-hypnosis, I think the “bottom” of trance is reached when resistance is at its minimum — almost zero. The practical question is: how do you get the controlling mind to stop monitoring the process without starting a fight against it?
I always set a vibrating alarm on my wristwatch. That is a practical safety measure, because the state I am aiming for can dissolve the ordinary sense of time, place, and self. When the session ends, before opening my eyes, I genuinely cannot estimate whether I have been in trance for 20 minutes or two hours.
Over the years I have conditioned my mind so that entering deep trance no longer takes several minutes. When I sense that I am approaching the lower edge of conscious control, I make a dissociative shift. I create a mental “double” and give it a task: it takes over the psychophysical monitoring of the process.
This double is, of course, only a projection of my own mind. That is exactly the point of the method. The controlling mind is not forced into silence. It is moved into a projected role. The double begins a familiar, monotonous, imagined physical movement — for example, rowing a boat. With clients I have also used the image of shuffling a deck of cards for the same purpose.
There is one essential point in this dissociative shift. Consciousness seems to have a constant need to form some kind of location-experience: where am I, where is this happening, from where is the experience being observed? This can be seen even in extreme situations. A person with dementia may have a strong sense of being in a particular place, even when that belief is factually wrong. The mind builds a place, because without a place experience does not quite hold together.
In self-hypnosis, this locating function can become a disturbance. As trance deepens, part of the mind may wake up to check: where am I, what is happening, am I still in control? That checking movement brings awareness back to the room, the body, and the clock — and the trance becomes lighter.
In the double technique, I try to guide this locating and controlling function away from my actual body and the present moment into an illusory place. The controlling mind still gets a location and a task, but it is placed inside the projection: in the boat, at the card table, or in some other simple image. In this way, the mind’s need for place does not bring me back into the room. It is allowed to operate inside the image.
The double “knows” that its task is to monitor the whole system, while also knowing that it is an illusion. In this sense, the two figures remain connected: the one going deeper, and the one supposedly supervising. Control does not disappear immediately, but it no longer interrupts the deepening by checking my actual location.
If the image is rowing, the movement continues until the boat reaches the shore. My hypothesis is that the psyche can recognize the moment when it is safe to let go, and then produces the image of arrival. If the image is shuffling cards, the instruction can be that the double places the cards on the table when there is no longer any need to continue shuffling and the mind can be allowed to “switch off.”
I do not present this as metaphysics. It is a practical dissociation technique. The aim is not to destroy control, but to reduce resistance by giving the controlling function a role, a location, and a task that gradually become unnecessary.
In short: the double is not just another self, but a place-bound monitoring projection. It is given the very task that would otherwise make consciousness wake up and ask: “Where am I, and who is supervising this?” When the answer is found inside the image, the actual self does not need to rise up and check.
so ive recently been seeing a lot of hypnosis stuff on here and on YouTube. it kind of fascinates me but also creeps me out. I have a few questions. 1. Is it possible for you to be unable to snap yourself out of hypnosis? I saw a post on here of a guy who had a trigger to make them clean and they felt like they were in the back-seat of their body and it took them 20 minutes to snap out of it 2. If you really dont want to, are you still gonna go along with suggestions or triggers? for example, if I have a trigger to fall asleep or something, and im out somewhere and someone says the trigger word, will I just fall asleep or will I simply be compelled to? 3. are you actually concious during all the hypnosis and you just feel compelled to do the stuff or does your body simply do it 4. is it possible for hypnotists to remove triggers from you if you've had them? 5. how long do triggers last and how can you get rid of them yourself?
ive been seeing a lot of stories about it and some of it is a little creepy to me so I just want some reassurance. I have tried hypnosis audio's on YouTube but so far none have worked
Most early hypnotherapy schools were started by retired stage hypnotists.
In the 1950s the police called on Parliament to bring in regulation. Why? After a hypnotic show in London, numerous people were reportedly calling in at different police stations across London asking Lost Property if anyone had handed in their belly button!
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Peter Carson, a leading stage hypnotist of the time, then influenced Parliament toward what became the Hypnotism Act 1952.
The Hypnotism Act 1952 was Britain’s attempt to regulate something it did not fully understand. Local authorities were given powers to control public hypnosis performances because Parliament recognised that hypnosis could genuinely affect people psychologically.
This alone is revealing.
Governments do not normally regulate stage magic tricks. They regulate activities believed capable of causing harm.
In December 1994, the issue of stage hypnotism was raised in the House of Commons and recorded in Hansard. During the debate, a series of cases were cited in which members of the public were said to have suffered severe psychological or physical effects following stage hypnosis performances.
• Mrs. Margaret Harper spoke of her daughter, Sharron Tabarn. Some years earlier, she had been hypnotised at a club in Leyland, Lancashire. At the end of the trance, she was told to come out of it as if she had received a 10,000-volt electric shock. Her husband took her home in a somewhat dazed state, and five hours later, she died.
• A young man from High Wycombe, who was hypnotised by Paul McKenna, had to be admitted to a psychiatric unit two days later, where he was detained for six weeks and was still receiving treatment seven weeks later. While he was hypnotised, he was put into regression, which is against the code of conduct, and was left unattended, which is also against the guidelines.
• Mr. Nickson of Prestatyn became unable to work as a result of stage hypnotism, was unable to hold a conversation, and attempted suicide. His case was attested to by Mr. Trevelyn, the consultant psychiatrist for Clwyd.
• David Burill of Blackpool was hypnotised by Alan Bates and collapsed immediately after being brought round. He "went crazy" – his words – and had to be re-hypnotised by Bates. He suffered violent headaches for weeks afterwards.
• Ruth McLoughlin, a Glasgow University student, was hypnotised in October by Stefan Force, and doctors later found that her heart rate had dropped to a dangerously low level. These are just a few of the complaints that I and others have received.
• Dr. Prem Meisra, who works in Glasgow, described a patient who became a compulsive eater of onions after being told to eat onions instead of apples while in a trance. It sounds funny, but it is not. Another of his patients went into a trance every time someone clapped, and a further patient began to suffer from a schizo-affective disorder.
I make no comment on these accounts and have only copied and pasted this information from the Parliament website. The reader may well assume that these professional government bodies fully understand hypnosis.
The fact of the matter is that the Home Office guidelines for stage hypnosis partly originate from FESH, the Federation of Ethical Stage Hypnosis, which also influenced the implementation of the 1952 Stage Hypnosis Act. Peter Casson, now deceased, started this federation. He had been performing as a stage hypnotist from 1943 to the mid-1990s and referred to himself as the Master Hypnotist. One might reasonably ask whether figures such as Peter Casson, and others within the profession, exerted a hypnotic influence over Parliament's understanding of hypnosis.
Is it the same old story: hypnotists were, and still are, using their skills to influence and control others, including regulatory bodies, in order to continue performing in what is a lucrative profession. A closer look at the 1996 Home Office report reveals that "the review of medical evidence and available research literature was carried out by a panel of experts who were nominated by the British Psychological Society and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Were the panel members experts in hypnosis?" An expert panel in what? Psychiatry? If they were not experts in hypnosis, how could they correctly evaluate the evidence?
It cannot be proven that hypnosis was the trigger for Chris Gates' mental illness, or for the death of Sharron Tabarn. Equally, for those directly affected, questions about subjective experience and perceived harm remain unresolved.
When my daughter is with her father, she comes back with completely different feelings. I try and ask her why her feelings change and she can’t remember. Up till when she was about 9, she used to sleep with me a couple times a week. She would get scared at night and crawl in bed with me. I knew my ex didn’t like this at all and would get upset when it happened to him. One day she just stopped. She couldn’t tell me why or how. This may be a good thing but now she is changing her mind all the time. At one point she wanted to get her ears pierced then she didn’t twice when we were going to go do it. She changed mind. But when she was with step mom, she did want to all of a sudden. Another time is I bought her a dress for a dance (she is 14 now). She really loved the dress and was excited to wear it. When she was at her dad’s house she called and said she didn’t like the dress and asked if step mom could take her to get a new dress the day of the dance. I was just fine with it but when I asked why she changed her mind she couldn’t really remember. One time she was having a bday party at her dad’s house and I was going to make the cake. She came up with the type, flavor, icing. A few days before I went to pick her up from dads house and he said “well she doesn’t want a cake anymore” I said that’s ridiculous bc she told me she did so I will bring it anyway. I asked her later why her father said that, she didn’t know. She said she did tell him that but didn’t know why. There are many times she changes feelings and can’t remember why.
I should preface that me and her father are not together. He is remarried to another woman who I’ve tried to “befriend” in many ways, there have been no riffs, yet she pretends like I don’t exist. It may be important to add that she is over 250 lbs. bc it could denote helplessness and depression. Also jealousy bc I am opposite. It may take this type of situation to breed helplessness and resort to hypnosis to get what they want. She also texts my daughter almost everyday on a friendly like manner. My daughter has mentioned how she also believes that she uses her father’s phone to pretend to be him sometimes. I have also suspected she has done this to me.
I am worried my daughter’s feelings are being hypnotized. What signs should I look for and can I undo it?
I know it can sound crazy,i even not sure if its corect defininion or corect sub- but recently in life i had some questionable few expierences. Im talking about ability - with positive energy to put a person in some kind positive different dimension, when the person thinks that its perfection of the feeling. I want to hear some thoughts about it without giving too much details, im sure certain people will understand(if im not crazy) and will give some insight
Hi guys! I'm looking for a professional hypnotist and figured Reddit would provide. I need help with getting hypnotized out of some limiting beliefs and mental blocks. I would prefer to go in person, but if you have worked with someone remotely and they were worth it I'd open to a recommendation!
Please only recommend someone you've worked with and can vouch for based on your results. I came here instead of Googling so I can get honest referrals and reviews. Also if you have price range that the sessions would cost, that would be helpful too. I am based in Florida and looked into one I had found on Google and they were $3k which is not in my budget right now. I don't know if this the normal price or not, but I'm hoping I can find something more affordable.
TIA!!
I’m having hypnosis for crippling anxiety triggered by serious illness and I thought it would be the hypno therapist telling me/my subconscious I would feel less anxiety or that I don’t need to be as anxious ?
Instead she does the trance thing and just …talk and repeats the same thing about that my subconscious must have a reason for making me feel the way I do and that I can ask it if there’s a better way.
She asked my subconscious to think about it and let me know and absolutely nothing happens.
Then asks me how it went and if I had any thoughts and I say no. This week is my third session and I am going to ask her this but honestly I’m confused.
I wanted to also get around to using her for pain too but it seems as though all she will do is ask me to talk to my subconscious about feeling it less or something ?
Is this how it’s meant to be ?
My BIL is IDD (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities) with mental problems and has issues with black people. He was abused by several black caregivers when he was a child and even into his teenage years at facilities where he was being cared for. He also grew up around racist grandparents in the 60's.
He is currently in a group home and they have black caregivers. He comes undone and starts shouting racial epithets when they attempt to care for him...
I'd like to know if it would be possible to hypnotize him to help fix this issue.
As a former professional stage hypnotist and hypnotherapist, I’ve spent a long time thinking about hypnosis, not just as a practitioner, but as someone who eventually felt compelled to write about that world.
One phrase always gets repeated:
“Nobody can make you do anything against your will under hypnosis.”
It sounds neat. Reassuring. Safe.
My own experience suggests reality is far murkier.
Hypnosis is not cartoon mind control. But neither is it merely a harmless relaxation exercise.
It involves authority, suggestion, expectation, altered focus, compliance, social dynamics, and sometimes the strange manipulation of human consciousness itself.
I influenced ordinary people do extraordinary things on stage. Was it safe? Was it immoral? Or was it just a great way to show the masses the power of the mind and imagination?
That questioning eventually became part of a memoir.
But I’m curious about others’ experiences.
Were you ever hypnotised? Did it feel like full consent, cooperation, surrender, something else entirely?
Where do you think the line is between influence and free will?
Hey, I'm very interested in becoming proficient at hypnosis. I have some education in NLP. What are some of your favorite books and some of the recommendations for learning the foundations of hypnosis? Also, any courses or teachers that you highly recommend are much appreciated.🙏
How do you create the classes without showing your face? And where’s is the best place to sell those classes?
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I recently wrote a weekly article on my website about Milton H. Erickson, systemic thinking and the predictive mind.
My starting point is the idea that a psychological problem is not just a symptom, but a stable predictive construction. The person wants to change, but the system maintaining the problem has already learned to resist familiar attempts at change.
This is where Erickson becomes especially interesting. His interventions often look strange on the surface: amplifying a symptom, accepting resistance, giving the symptom a time or a task, or moving the problem into a different frame. From a systemic and predictive-processing perspective, these may be very precise disruptions of the old model.
I am less interested in Erickson as a legend or personality than in the deep structure of his language and methods. His work suggests that change does not always require a large intervention. Sometimes the smallest well-placed difference is enough to force the old predictive model to reorganize itself.
In the article I also connect this to imagery work, NLP submodalities and the idea that a problem construction can be “contaminated” by adding an element that creates a contradiction with the old stored pattern. The added element does not always have to move directly toward the desired goal. Sometimes going sideways, or even amplifying the symptom, bypasses the resistance that a direct change attempt would immediately activate. / Lauri Tiikasalo - Hypnosis, Trance and the Predictive Mind
I am QHHT level 2 certified . I am not practice it now but I like the theory about do not take medicine in general. I did use pain relief medicine last time I fell and got hurt. this question came up.
PROCESS-ORIENTED HYPNOSIS by Michael D. Yapko, PhD. Very enjoyable. I’m listening to it on audible. I’ll also be checking out his book entitled Trancework but unfortunately that one doesn’t appear to have an audio version.
So my father used to hypnotise me. When i was a kid my father and I "accidentally" found a homeless couple doing street hypnosis for change. One put the other in a trance and made him do weird things and then took them out of the trance, and then the other acted like they didnt remember anything. Then my father did it to me. He threatened me if i told other people about it. Its been years since, but recently someone random tried hypnotising me and i went into a trance where i didnt remember anything, and the person was in shock and apologised. I work full time and whatnot so i dont think im crazy. What is this, is it possible,? Any advice?
He was pretty good and I was able to get into a trance (I think) and my imagination was fantastic in my head, I was able to see things and felt like I had no control of the direction. Almost like a story in my head.
My main reason going in was for helping with lack of self worth.
At the end of the session he told me the price, which was $190. Which seemed very high. Is that normal?
Once I left the office I felt amazing. Like a burden had been lifted off my shoulders. I felt one with the world.
However now it’s been a couple days and I feel the same as I did before my session.
I really want to keep trying hypnotherapy because I felt really really good during and after it. But the price and not seeing an immediate permanent result are giving me second doubts.
What do you all think?
Where I splice the audio together there is a trance interrupting volume fluctuation according to the feedback I’ve gotten from people.
What’s a good audio editor for splicing hypnosis audio together seamlessly.
I tried GarageBand and I could get it to work so anything other suggestions?
Hello, So im tring to get into hypnossis and want to know the best books that i can read\ about the subject Thanks. Nice day to everyone